Location: Santa Cruz
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What to do and see in Santa Cruz, California (CA): The Best Wineries & Vineyards
The quintessential California beach town of Santa Cruz! It was here that surfing was first brought to the mainland by Hawaiian royalty. Home to the legendary Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a pedestrian-friendly, tree-lined downtown area, and the historic Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, which stretches out a half-mile into the waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Other highlights include UC Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, and nearby redwood forests.
Restaurants in Santa Cruz
1. Rexford Winery
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 1 reviews
2. MJA Vineyards
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4.5 based on 57 reviews
We are OPEN for Tastings. Come for the wine...stay for the Aloha! Is it possible to make the intangible, tangible? To define love, or to capture the feeling of a sunset? That's the challenge when it comes to MJA. It's not just a destination, it's an experience that goes beyond the wine, mixed with the aroma of chocolate & Kona Coffee, the setting and the people... It's the Aloha! Actually, we handcraft around 8000 cases of our Aloha each year, right in our Westside Cellar in Santa Cruz. We sell our wines directly from our Tasting Rooms because our philosophy is that we want you to be able to buy the highest quality wine that we can produce at the best value possible. That's why we offer weekly specials such as "take 3 bottles for the price of 2", and 20% off everyday for our Kahuna Wine Club Members, and 30% off on club pickup days. And our 100% Kona Coffee that Marin (he's the MJA) grows on the Big Island of Hawaii, was voted as America's Best Coffee by Forbes Magazine.
3. Storrs Winery
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4.5 based on 22 reviews
4. Beauregard Vineyard
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 37 reviews
Reviewed By X9425KXtimf - Grosse Pointe, United States
We had sampled some Beauregard wines at the Ritz Carlton and were pleased so we made a visit after a hike. Great wines and chance to enjoy the “grove” seating outside. Really enjoyed the fruit flavors of the Pinot Noirs that were aged”Oeuf en Beton”. Well worth the visit....most interesting is they have exclusive vineyards from Ben Lomond AVA. Coastal Burgundian varietals.
5. Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 9 reviews
Making fine, hand-crafted wines in the Santa Cruz Mountains since 1975. And home of Quinta Cruz, which specializes in Californian grown Portuguese and Spanish wines.
Reviewed By SeekingVines - San Diego, United States
We chose this tasting room due to featuring two labels. Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard, and Quinta Cruz (these were Spanish and Portuguese varieties which are apparently positioned as "Cal-Iberian".). Andrew, a very knowledgeable gentleman, was working the tasting room. The tasting room shares the facility with space where the wines appear to be produced. So there was a forklift operating in the background, etc. After 6+ tastings, I requested further tastings be restricted to a select few. Many different tastings were on offer. I rarely buy dessert wines but was impressed by a Port style wine that may be one of the few made from the standard grapes used in Portugal. That was one of our purchases. As an added bonus, they also sell Osocalis Brandy. The brandy is not offered for tasting, but the aromas did intrigue us. So we added a bottle of Osocalis to our purchases. The tasting room is in an industrial-type area but our online directions made it easy to find. I would definitely return.
6. Sones Cellars
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4.0 based on 2 reviews
7. Partage Winery
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
Partage is a boutique family owned and operated Santa Cruz, California wine label founded by Sommelier and Restaurateur Mark Bright, to produce wines in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Partage means “to share” in French, and that is how Mark created Partage by sharing wine together with his friends.
8. Dancing Creek Winery
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3.0 based on 1 reviews
9. Birichino Winery Tasting Room
Alex Krause and John Locke founded Birichino in Santa Cruz in 2008. Drawing four decades making wine in California, France, Italy, and beyond, they prefer to work with family-owned, own-rooted 19th and early 20th century vineyards (and a few from the late disco era) to produce natural, delicious wines made with minimal intervention that give pleasure, revitalize, and revive.
10. Silver Mountain Vineyards
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1 reviews
